Samsung today, has launched the Galaxy Tab S 8.4 and 10.5 inch tablet in India. These tablets will hit the stores soon (within few days) for Rs. 37,800 (8.4 inch screen) and Rs. 44,800 (10.5 inch screen). The Tab S will be powered by Exynos 5 octa core processor with 3G support and the 4G LTE variant will cost over 50K.

There is not much of a difference between the Tab S 10.5 and the Tab S 8.4. The common features are 1.9GHz + 1.3GHz octa core Exynos processor running Android 4.4 with 3GB RAM and 16 GB storage (32GB version is also available with a higher price tag). An 8MP AF is on the rear and 2.1 on the front.

The Tab S 8.4 comes with 4900 mAh battery and tab S 10.5 comes with 7,900 mAh batteries. This Samsung tab is just 6.6mm thick that makes it even slimmer than the iPads. The screen is super AMOLED that gives almost the same experience as on a smartphone. Both the tabs supports screen resolution of 2560 x 1600 pixels.

There is 3G, Wi-Fi, 2G, GPS with GLONASS and Bluetooth. The Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4 and the S 10.5 will be made available in local stores and online by mid July for a price tag of Rs. 37,800 and Rs. 44,800 respectively.

specs look good, except octa core Exynos processor -this is samsung in house CPU, not as good as snapdragon quad core. Maybe in USA you can get the better CPU. They have done the same trick on Note 3 in India. Exynos is slower, but adequate for general use.

Tab 8.4 looks so tempting, but one major factor in my decision is going to be availability of 4G because 3G is practically dead and to buy an expensive tab in 2014-without 4G will be fool hardy. Also in case 4G is there, then will pull the trigger when it reaches 30k. Which it might within 6 months.

“Samsung has not launched Wifi only variants”. That is really a bad marketing strategy by Samsung India. Particularly, after the failure of Galaxy S5 in India. They should have introduced Wifi only variants first with similar prices of that of US (may with little bit of extra margin for currency conversion). Now they have to drop down those prices by at least Rs. 10,000 within two months or so. Hopefully, they will do so. But for the time being, they have lost enthusiastic customers because of disappointing prices. They should have learned from “MOTO G.

True Point Krishna, if one has to go samsung tab with 3G Tab3 T311 is still a great option ( screen quality is awesome), don’t think its will be available any more cause Tab4 has launched which actually is .5 mm thicker than tab3 and again haven’t seen its display (think that samsung would have reduced the display quality of Tab 4 for the obvious highlighting of S series?).